Film
The Edge of Heaven. Von Fatih Akin, 2007.

Drama about the fate of six people who are inextricably linked.

Fri, 25.03.2016
7:00 PM Goethe-Institut Hanoi

When the lonely widower Ali persuades the prostitute Yeter to move in with him in return for a monthly payment, Ali’s son Nejat doesn’t hide his disapproval. His opinion changes slightly when he learns that Yeter needs her income to support the studies of her daughter Ayten, who lives in Turkey. But then Yeter dies in a tragic accident, and Nejat decides to travel to Turkey to find her daughter. Ayten, however, is a political activist and has fled from Turkey to Germany. There, she befriends the rebellious student Lotte, whose conservative mother disapproves of their relationship. When Ayten is arrested and deported to Turkey, Lotte follows her. In Istanbul, the paths of the six characters finally cross. Only in the face of death they learn what forgiveness means.

Fatih Akin - A movie director, scriptwriter, actor and producer born in Hamburg 1973. In his movies, he deals with themes like identity, culture and home. Fatih Akin became internationally known in 2004 with his movie “Head-on”, for which he won several prizes, including the Golden Bear. Since then he has been awarded numerous prizes, for example at the Venice Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, the German Film Awards and the European Film Awards.
 

About the film
Genre	Drama
Country	Germany, Turkey
Year	2007
Director	Fatih Akin
Script	Fatih Akin
Cast	Nurgül Yeşilçay, Baki Davrak, Patrycia Ziółkowska, Nursel Köse, Tuncel Kurtiz, Hanna Schygulla
Length	122 minutes
Awards	Cannes Film Festival 2007: Best Screenplay; Ecumenical Jury Prize European Film Awards 2007: Best Screenplay Bavarian Film Awards 2007: Best Director German Film Award 2008: Best Feature Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Editing Grand Prize Lino Brocka Award 2007, Manila, Philippines Vancouver Film Critics 2008 : Best Foreign Language Film
Festivals	Cannes Film Festival 2007 44th International Antalya Film Festival 10th RiverRun International Film Festival 2008 Dubrovnik Libertas Film Festival 2008